Here they come, the Bedroom Boys, to get all upset and tell us how this is the worst synth they've ever seen. You don't have to buy it fellas, plenty of others will...
To give us only 22 voices of polyphony and no multitimbrality in 2023 for $900 is a slap in the face. I remember when Roland gave us 128 voices and 32 part multitimbrality, ability to load 128MB of your own samples and run thru the synth engine. Those were the times when companys gave the customers what they wanted. Now its what the company wants to give us.
Nice! I had a Gaia before and I called it Kaija, Kaija is a Finnish womans name. Almost equal to Karen in the US. But my Kaija was a good one, never complained about anything. Worked really good. Sold it to buy a Nordlead and eventually found out that I liked my Kaija more than the red Norwegian.
Just checked in on the firmware, but seems it hasn't been updated since release. I think this synth needs: - Ability to load in custom wavetables - Ability to load in custom wavs into the noise oscillator - MPE support from an external controller Cheers PS: looking forward to Jupiter-6 ACB plugout for the System-8 still! PPS: bring back the mighty d-beam!
I know, this is not the only synth with such features. But… this thing is so smooth! The Arp modes when changing not having the tails cutting the sound is remarkable. It’s the feature that has impressed me the most. Not to mention the presentation. Felt super professional! 👏🏼
It strongly resembles modern VSTs and the Alesis Ion, among other stuff. D-05 looks like it came straight out of a sci-fi '80s movie (and that's what I love most about that unit, lol)
Sometimes it sounds better than my korg wavestate and sometimes it doesn’t. I would not mind having it. Nobody beats Roland, my first keyboards in the 70s and 80s were always Roland. They were the best then and the best now. Stop talking shit.
A beautiful and great sounding synth! After 10 years of excessive hardware using and then 20 years of using only virtual instruments, this is the first synth which I loved to have under my fingers and in my studio ❤. "Roland sound" as I liked it for years. Sad that there is no way for digital DAW integration. This would make it perfect to me.
Korg Gaia 2. Hot diggity. Just joking. I had the original Gaia and had a ton of fun with it. I like the non-complete-plastic look of it now and more knobs is always good.
Doesn't look and sound bad. But the price is too high... A direct competitor would be the Hydrasynth explorer, which you get for several hundreds less.💸
What's with the VST-like, great-looking front panel this time? That's fairly un-Roland, lol Also, modern sounds and wavetables are fairly un-Roland as well, not that I'm complaining - but hey, better late than never, lol Any chance that a mod matrix can be added later? I strongly feel that this is quite the essential feature to have in a modern VA synth.
You'd be better off with a VST, it would sound better and you can detune and pan the voices in unison (which makes a big difference). Sorry but this won't do trance. No supersaw either. You'd be miles better off with a cobalt 8 and save yourself money too. Otherwise get a Virus Ti which imo is one of the greatest synths of all time. (especially for trance, or the Jp8080). Roland suck now. Scammers!
This could give you some more Roland-y sounding pads, leads, and basses to help your tracks sound a bit different from most others. That said, MC-707 is a great alternative, but without wavetables. SH-4D could be the lower cost alternative, but I don't know how it compares in terms of the wavetable oscillator of each, but SH-4D has the advantage of multitimbrality, thus layering.
@@Jason75913 Or you could just get the UVI software which sounds much better and is samples of the original roland stuff. Or a Behringer JT4000 for $49. (yeah $49 and from the demos i've heard sounds miles better). If you compare GAIA 2 to a Moog sub 37 (I know ones digital and Moog is analog - very/completely different synths) it's just in a different league and really isn't much more expensive. The moog I can guarantee you probably costs 3-4 (maybe a lot more) times the price to produce. Or a Novation Peak is similar in price and destroys this in everyway. As I said I think Roland have become a disgrace!
Love this synth. I went to guitar Center and played with it. I’m just not sold on the build quality. Even the Jupiter models. All plastic and shifty pots and encoders. Can we get back to stronger parts please? If your gonna make it cheaper ensure you pass the cost savings into the customer.
This thing is beautiful 😍 😍 😍 Do the the keys velocity sensitive? And I'll assume theres no aftertouch. None of thats a deal breaker, i just can't seem to find amy info about all that
Looks like this will be a huge hit for Roland, definitely a dynamic syntn and something a bit different, also quite solid. On another note why does the presenter look like a 90's Harry Enfield? Those in the UK will know 😅
GAIA II+ model needs: 61 keys with channel aftertouch, 64 to 128 note polyphony, bi-timbrality, user loadable wave tables, and full-sized and backlit pitch and mod wheels. Keep the price under $2K and you have a mid-priced winner. This synth sounds awesome.
Just the ABM templates rather than full blown ACB models though. But it's a useful facility anyhow. I still think ABM templating should be an end user feature.. allow the community to develop a bunch of those things. Maybe when a BMC2 comes along with more cores they'll transition to that angle for ABM and leave the modeling to ACB
@Wagoo thank you, my friend! I needed to know that before I tried to get one! Looks like the System-8 is still is my favorite newer Roland synthesizer!
compared to the very first Gaia is this a Beast in a Tank.....awesome!! thank you roland! will grab one - sounds totally different then the first one 😂😂😂 glad i sold mine years ago
n recent years I've started to like Roland. I'm tired of teaching Yamaha to do the right thing, my criticism of them has not worked for many years. Many people reproach me that Yamaha’s competitors pay me money for this criticism. I'm tired of telling everyone that I don't get money from competitors, that's a fact! But sometimes I think, maybe I should really change the lager and change the brand? If you need a good person on the team who knows how to make good presets and videos, then through my RU-vid channel you will find contact with me. So far I only have Roland’s delay pedal in my setup. I don’t yet know with whom I will sail through life with Roland or Korg in the future, but I know for sure that it will not be with Yamaha.
Very typical Roland. Let me guess; you'll have to shell out money for the other synth emulations as opposed to just... having them. + Enjoy non-existent support & software.
A bit too much like korg mod wave ect...but sounds very big like a virus....over all looks and sounds slick...now they need to kill the d05 value and drop that engine into it ...seems like the perfect pair to a tr8s...idk....I need to see more than the big three parts sharing automation and sequence work is most important for me if it can do that well I'm happy along with its sound
Us Gaia V1 owners are a little salty at how you guys just walked away from Gaia. Discontinued the patch editor. Did absolutely nothing to update or fix its flaws. Gaia V2 looks great, of course, and solves the terrible build quality issue of Gaia 1 and sounds a LOT better. But I've moved on.
@@digitaldiezel5870 Bro, SH-01 was discontinued only last year. They sat on it for 12 years. GAIA2 already has only limited Zen-Core support - what makes you think it will get better than that? History says it won't.
@@BelongingToTheUniverse Depends what you want. I thought it might have one or two analog oscillators, at least - seeing as it looks like it’s intended to compete with (and borrows its finish/styling heavily from) the Minilogues … but Roland seems to be allergic to analog oscillators, these days 😄
They already stated they will never do an analog reissue, as they are sticking to their motto: "The Sound of The Future". The closest you'll see to a Roland analog synth is going to be from Behringer.
@@ULTIMATEPATCHES for "sound of the future", Gaia2 is their first synth to even sound modern at all, let alone "futuristic" in any sense, and really only due to the patches and not the synth engine itself. Roland has been stuck in the past, but their rompler gear can make more modern sounds, yet they refuse to hire a designer to stick some modern patches in their products (until now, it seems), so the end user must know how to do it themselves. I can deal with that, but a lot of folks picking up Roland keyboards can't, lol
Design and features that would have been difficult to come by without Korg minilogue and modwave... and a sound like Hydra Explorer... 😅 It's a nice put together synth, but it doesn't seem original. Cheer up. Plus, the price is always more expensive than Korg. 😂👍👍
Minilogue is irrelevant beyond measure. Modwave definitely looks very strongly like the inspiration. Roland looks a little silly. Additionally, the XY pad doubling as a mouse pad is just hilarious, but unusually clever. I love how no one is commenting on how Roland threw in modern sounding presets into a synth, something they've been stubbornly against for far too long, more than enough to baffle me as to just why. Why now after seemingly being so vehemently against doing anything more than churning out Jupiter/Juno60/etc. sounds for the upteenth time? It's "heresy", lol But hey, better late than never, right? I'll gladly snatch a used unit at a great price later. The asking price for new seems mildly steep for what you get.
After the Fantom failed promises I’m never buying a new Roland product ever again. The Fantom hasn’t had an update or bug fix for over one and a half years and has been dropped like a hot potato after only four year, with no interest or feedback from anyone at Roland for one and a half years of the four.
Hi I’ve been around since the mid 1970s. So you have a lot of catching up. I wouldn’t get it if your a player because it should be 61 minimum if your a player. If your a synth sound Guy then why not get it. Remember the synth game never ends, you’ll be playing it the rest of your life like me.
The structure with one wavetable oscillator and two digital analogue ones is like in the Studiologic Sledge, also tje concept of as little menu diving as possible. And that one has aftertouch...
